Climate Change and Food Riots: Learn to Farm

AKIRA WATTS (Photo: Christian Fischer) “[D]uring the summer of 1789 a fresh cause of discontent was added to all those which have just been enumerated. This cause was the famine — the exorbitant price of bread, for lack of which bread the poorer classes were suffering in most of the towns.”  - (Peter Kropotkin, The Great French Revolution 1789–1793.)

Source: www.truth-out.org

GR:  Most of us have no place to farm, but even in urban places there are ways to garden.  Of course, that won’t be enough.  Perhaps the article’s advice should be to make connections with nearby farmers.  Some added advice is to pay attention to water supplies for farmers.

Hope for nature?  Ultimately, food and water wars might cause an industrial decline that will led to a greenhouse gas emissions decline.  The devastation required to reach that point will be hard for natural Earth-systems to repair, but if human-impacts decline or disappear, the Earth and its wildlife can recover.